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Speaker 1: We are so glad that you joined us for this podcast.

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Speaker 1: We believe that this is going to be a great February.

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Speaker 1: We're starting the year off right and we know that

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Speaker 1: God's got blessings in store for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so awesome that you join us and we

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Speaker 2: just speak blessings over you and your family. Get ready

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Speaker 2: for a blessed twenty twenty four. Enjoy the message. God

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Speaker 2: bless you. It's great to be with you today, and

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Speaker 2: I hope you stay connected with us during the week

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Speaker 2: through our daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, and

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Speaker 2: you can come visit us in person. We'd love to

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Speaker 2: have you be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 2: But I like to start with something funny, and I

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Speaker 2: heard about this single man. He was sitting on an

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Speaker 2: airplane next to a very beautiful single woman. They struck

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Speaker 2: up a conversation and he asked what kind of men

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Speaker 2: she liked. She said, well, I like Native American men

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Speaker 2: with their high cheek bones and golden tan skin. Plus

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Speaker 2: I like Jewish men, they're so brilliant and successful. And

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Speaker 2: I like good old boys from the South with their

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Speaker 2: long Southern drawl. What's your name, he said, My name

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Speaker 2: is Geronimo Bernstein, but my friends call me Bubba.

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Speaker 3: All right, y'all say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 3: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 3: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 3: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 3: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 3: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 3: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about the miracle

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Speaker 2: of endurance. When we think of miracles, we think of

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Speaker 2: when God suddenly turns things around. Jesus touched the blind

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Speaker 2: man and instantly his eyes were opening, prayed over five

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Speaker 2: loves of bread and two fish. They multiplied and fed

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Speaker 2: five thousand people. Moses held his staff up in the air,

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Speaker 2: and the Red sea parted. Suddenly things changed. But not

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Speaker 2: all miracles are instantaneous. Sometimes we're praying and believing, but

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Speaker 2: the problem's not turning around. Our health isn't improving, our

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Speaker 2: dream isn't coming to pass, and we thank God, where

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Speaker 2: are you? Why aren't you doing something? We don't realize

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Speaker 2: God is doing something. He's sustaining us, He's not letting

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Speaker 2: the opposition take us out. He's pushing back forces of darkness.

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Speaker 2: He's keeping you from getting discouraged, bitter, and giving up.

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Speaker 2: You're in the middle of a miracle, but you can't

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Speaker 2: always see it. It's the miracle of endurance. One day

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Speaker 2: you'll look back and think, how did I make it

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Speaker 2: through that season? How did I raise this difficult child?

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Speaker 2: How did I not get bitter over that breakup? How

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Speaker 2: did I keep going when I lost that loved one.

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Speaker 2: God didn't deliver you from it, but he gave you

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Speaker 2: the grace to go through it. Without his hand of protection,

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Speaker 2: favor and blessing, you wouldn't be where you are. And yes,

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Speaker 2: we all loved the instantaneous miracles the suddenlyist. I believe

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Speaker 2: in that, but it's no less of a miracle when

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Speaker 2: God takes you through what should have taken you out.

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Speaker 2: And instead of complaining, God, why want you to answer

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Speaker 2: my prayers? Nothing good's happening in my life. Have a

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Speaker 2: new perspective. Lord, Thank you for sustaining me. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for giving me the grace, the strength, the favor to

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Speaker 2: keep moving forward. The Israelites had been in the desert

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Speaker 2: for forty years. There were no grocery stores, no malls,

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Speaker 2: scripture says their clothes never wore out, their shoes never

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Speaker 2: got old. How could they go forty years and not

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Speaker 2: wear out. That wasn't natural, that was supernatural. Every morning

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Speaker 2: in the desert they had food to eat. Manna, something

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Speaker 2: like bread appeared on the ground. They never missed a meal.

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Speaker 2: They weren't trained to live in the desert. They didn't

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Speaker 2: against all odds, the Israelites defeated them. They weren't in

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Speaker 2: the Promised Land. They were waiting for that miracle. That day,

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Speaker 2: they finally made it to the land of the Abundance,

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Speaker 2: but it was taken longer than they thought. They were uncomfortable,

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Speaker 2: and they started to complain, Moses, why'd you bring us

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Speaker 2: out here in the desert? Nothing good is happening. They

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Speaker 2: God was sustaining them, protecting them, not letting enemies defeat them.

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Speaker 2: Every miracle is not instantaneous. Are you in the middle

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Speaker 2: in the Promised Land yet. Your child hasn't turned around,

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Speaker 2: didn't deliver you from it, but he's taken you through it.

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Speaker 2: He's sustaining you. Right now now there's a miracle taking place.

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Speaker 2: You can't always see it. Some comfortable. There's still opposition,

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Speaker 2: kind of feels like God has forgotten about you. But

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Speaker 2: what should defeat you. He's protecting you from what should

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Speaker 2: take you out. Like with job, he has a hedge

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Speaker 2: around you that the enemy cannot cross. You're not at

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Speaker 2: the mercy of other people. Sickness, lost, bad breaks. That

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Speaker 2: doesn't determine your destiny. God does what he is. Purpose

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Speaker 2: for your life will come to pass. Now you have

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Speaker 2: to trust his timing and trust his ways. He may

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Speaker 2: take you through some desert seasons. You thought you'd be

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Speaker 2: in the Promised Land by now, But have you noticed

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Speaker 2: your shoes haven't worn out. There's been provision. Those enemies,

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Speaker 2: that sickness, the addiction seems stronger and bigger, but they

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Speaker 2: couldn't defeat you. There's protection, there's angels watching over you.

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Speaker 2: That closed door, the delay, the disappointment, should have caused

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Speaker 2: you to get bitter, discouraged. But look at you. You're

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Speaker 2: still believing. You're still praising, You're still expecting things to change,

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Speaker 2: You're still being good to others. That's not natural. You

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Speaker 2: didn't just decide to have a good attitude, decide to

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Speaker 2: be hopeful. That's the most highed God breathing on your life,

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Speaker 2: empowering you to stand strong so you can reach your destiny.

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Speaker 2: In the Book of Daniel, King nebka Nezzar made a

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Speaker 2: statue that stood ninety feet tall. He put out a

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Speaker 2: decree that everyone had to bow down and worship this idol.

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Speaker 2: If anyone didn't, they'd be thrown into a fiery furnace. Well,

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Speaker 2: there were three Hebrew teenagers, Chad, DrAk, Bijak, and a

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Speaker 2: When the king heard about it, he was furious. He

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Speaker 2: gave them one more chance. They said, in effect, King,

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Speaker 2: to bow down. We know our God will deliver us,

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Speaker 2: but even if he doesn't, we're still not going to

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Speaker 2: guards heat up the fire seven times hotter than normal.

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Speaker 2: They tied the teenager's hands and feet and threw them

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Speaker 2: into the furnace. Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire.

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Speaker 2: Other times he'll make you fire proof and take you

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Speaker 2: through the fire. In a little while. This king came

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Speaker 2: to check on them. He looked through the furnace window, said,

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Speaker 2: didn't we throw three men in bound? I see four

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Speaker 2: men loose, and one looks like the son of God.

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Speaker 2: The only thing the fire burned were the cords that

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Speaker 2: smell of smoke. King Nebuka Nezar said, from now on,

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Speaker 2: we're all gonna worship the God of sheddrak Nisha can

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Speaker 2: have been to go. But here's my point. God is

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Speaker 2: all powerful. He could have just as easily kept them

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Speaker 2: took him out. He could have made those teenagers invisible.

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Speaker 2: There were a thousand ways he could have kept them

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Speaker 2: out of the fire. But sometimes the fire is the

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Speaker 2: pathway to our destiny. And there are two kinds of faith.

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Speaker 2: Delivering faith and sustaining faith. Delivering faith is when God

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Speaker 2: instantly turns it around. He keeps you out of the fire.

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Speaker 2: Parts the Red Sea changes the pharaoh's mind. But most

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Speaker 2: of the time we're going to need sustaining faith. That's

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Speaker 2: when God takes you through the fire. That's when you're

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Speaker 2: in the desert on the weight of the promised land,

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Speaker 2: when you don't see anything improving. When it's taken longer,

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Speaker 2: the opposition bigger, you'll be tempted to think, God, where

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Speaker 2: are you. I got thrown into the fire. I didn't

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Speaker 2: see the breakthrough. The good news is God is in

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Speaker 2: the fire with you. He's the one sustaining you. That's

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Speaker 2: why you're not burning up. That's why you're not overcome.

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Speaker 2: That's why the sickness can't take it out. That's why

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Speaker 2: that trouble hasn't defeated you. That's why you haven't panicked

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Speaker 2: in falling apart. There's a force at work in your life, protecting, providing, favoring,

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Speaker 2: not letting you be defeated. Greater is he that's in

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Speaker 2: you than he that's coming against you. David said it

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Speaker 2: like this. By this, I know the Lord is on

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Speaker 2: my side for my enemies could not defeat me. He

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Speaker 2: how many storms I avoid, how many deserts I don't

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Speaker 2: take me out. My shoes didn't wear out in the desert.

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Speaker 2: The sickness couldn't in my life. The opposition couldn't stop

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Speaker 2: my purpose. There's a fourth man in that fire, sustaining us,

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Speaker 2: pushing back the darkness, causing us to stand strong, to outlast,

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Speaker 2: to persevere. You don't know God's on your side by

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Speaker 2: how many dreams you accomplish, how many goals you achieved,

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Speaker 2: how much his success you have. That's all great, But

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Speaker 2: see how He sustained you when you should have gone under,

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Speaker 2: How he lifted you when you should have stayed down.

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Speaker 2: you should have been stuck. When my father went to

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Speaker 2: so to speak. I was praying God deliver me from

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Speaker 2: know you can heal him too, but this time God

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Speaker 2: did it another way. Twenty five years ago, last Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: was supposed to step up and pasture the church, but

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Speaker 2: And I missed my father. I mourned his loss, but

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Speaker 2: didn't get depressed. I knew God was in control. I

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Speaker 2: knew he was still ordering our steps. And I didn't

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Speaker 2: feel qualified to minister. I didn't have the training. I

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Speaker 2: a boldness that I never felt before. And yes it

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Speaker 2: was difficult. I was uncomfortable to not be thrown into

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Speaker 2: leading me to my destiny. If God would have kept

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Speaker 2: me from the fire, I wouldn't have stepped into the

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Speaker 2: fullness of what He had in store. Now. I can't

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Speaker 2: promise you that God will deliver you from every fire,

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Speaker 2: but I can promise you God will be with you

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Speaker 2: in that fire to sustain you, to protect you, to

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Speaker 2: empower you, to enlarge you, to move you towards your destiny.

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Speaker 2: When I look back now, I think, how did I

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Speaker 2: make it through that time learning to minister, losing my father,

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Speaker 2: everything turned upside down? That was God sustaining me. You

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Speaker 2: Think about all the times he made a way. He

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Speaker 2: Right now, God is lifting burdens, lightning loads. You're about

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Speaker 4: Breathtaking that's what you feel when you look out at

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Speaker 4: But even as you consider his handiwork, you might also

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